On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 16:09 -0500, Patrick Chapman wrote:
> Hi, as a programmer I'm a bit of a hack but I am a good biologist.
>
> my end goal is to produce Debian packages that work easily for me. I
> have started by trying to repackage the Fedora 8 packages (vitural
> computers are a wonderful thing) to acheve understanding. Fedora 8
> comes with boost 1.34 libferris configuration demands boost 1.33 and I
> cannot change this.
You could start with the packages from OBS
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/monkeyiq/
specifically, the xUbuntu 710 ones
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/monkeyiq/xUbuntu_7.10/
I never completely compiled for ubuntu 804 on OBS.
I have recently compiled libferris again for maemo using boost 1.34.1.
So later boost versions are OK. I have updated that configure message.
The downside to the OBS packages referenced above is that I tend to use
Fedora and recently maemo, so I generally keep those packages up to date
in line with what my needs are at the time.
>
> If it is not too much trouble I could use a 'point in the right
> direction'. At the moment I don't even care if libferris will work
> with boost 1.34 if I can't even change the config file I'm not going
> to get anywhere.
Are you meaning that you want to use boost 1.33.1 on debian?
Which config file are your referring to?
What are the last few (interesting) lines in config.log?
Oh, and I assume you have packaged the prerequisites like ferrisloki,
ferrisstreams, stldb4, fampp2?

Hi, as a programmer I'm a bit of a hack but I am a good biologist.
my end goal is to produce Debian packages that work easily for me. I
have started by trying to repackage the Fedora 8 packages (vitural
computers are a wonderful thing) to acheve understanding. Fedora 8
comes with boost 1.34 libferris configuration demands boost 1.33 and I
cannot change this.
If it is not too much trouble I could use a 'point in the right
direction'. At the moment I don't even care if libferris will work
with boost 1.34 if I can't even change the config file I'm not going
to get anywhere.
Patrick Chapman